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A government budget is an instrument for fulfilling the state's obligations and a political statement of the priorities set by the government in allocating resources. It is generally perceived as gender neutral. However, the budgetary policies have differential impacts on men and women, and more often than not, the resource allocation tends to be partial. Despite the numerous attempts at narrowing the gender disparity, women continue to experience continuous vulnerabilities, and their opportunity gaps endure in all spheres. It is anticipated that gender budgeting would provide the mechanism to close the gender gap. The paper provides an overview of the concept of gender budgeting, its historical development and its current status in Mizoram. It is descriptive and is based on secondary sources. It explores the issues and posits that capacity building, leadership commitment, access to gender-disaggregated data and the participation of the civil society, among others, would facilitate the institutionalisation of gender budgeting in the state.